Library & information sciences books

A long overdue biography of Alice M. Jordan (1870-1960), head of youth services at the Boston Public Library from...  Read More >>

Nearly half of US libraries have seen substantial increases in serial spending during the past ten years. Where...  Read More >>

Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles reflect on what libraries have been in order to speculate about what they will...  Read More >>

The Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI) is a pivotal resource for cultural heritage scholars,...  Read More >>

In an age of scarcity and the challenge of electronic records, can archivists and records managers continue to rely...  Read More >>

Screening movies is a fun, engaging way to bring people of all...  Read More >>

This book is designed to provide information professionals, paraprofessionals and students with up-to-date, practical...  Read More >>

Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out! From a patron's missing wetsuit to...  Read More >>

African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects? is an essential new analysis of the effects of the digital revolution...  Read More >>

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The latest edition of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, from the Association for Education, Communication...  Read More >>

In her new book, seasoned copyright expert Butler turns her attention to one of the complex arenas in the world...  Read More >>

Since children develop the critical language and early reading skills necessary to enter kindergarten between birth...  Read More >>

The daily administration of an academic library often leaves you needing quick advice on the topic at hand. Nelson,...  Read More >>

Useful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these...  Read More >>

With nearly 142 million items and one of the largest bodies of high-quality, digitized content available, the Library...  Read More >>

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects...  Read More >>

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Some have viewed sthe ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than...  Read More >>

The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without...  Read More >>

Based on years of ground-breaking research, this book supplies a look at the unique relationship between each text...  Read More >>

A guide to libraries as creative spaces including exercises, best...  Read More >>

As one university librarian put it, Dempsey's ""dual ability to explore an issue and to reveal the higher-order...  Read More >>

This book fills the research gap through an empirical assessment of metadata guidelines and best practices. This...  Read More >>

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